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Founder's background as a catalyst for social entrepreneurship
Author(s) -
Asarkaya Cigdem,
Keles Taysir Nurgul
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
nonprofit management and leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.844
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1542-7854
pISSN - 1048-6682
DOI - 10.1002/nml.21353
Subject(s) - popularity , turkish , entrepreneurship , social entrepreneurship , process (computing) , public relations , sociology , theory of planned behavior , marketing , psychology , positive economics , social psychology , business , political science , economics , management , computer science , law , linguistics , philosophy , operating system , control (management)
Social entrepreneurship has a long history of practice worldwide. However, the concept has become widely popular among researchers over the last two decades. Despite this popularity, less is known about the process, which leads to becoming a social entrepreneur. Barendsen and Gardner's study shows that many social entrepreneurs have traumatic experience in their early lives; however, there are no supporting studies investigating the impact of the background of founders on the founding decision of their entities. Because of that we utilized the models of theory of planned behavior as well as the concept of imprinting to explain the process that leads to entrepreneurial behavior. The purpose of our study is to investigate the life stories of some Turkish social entrepreneurs, and to explore which factors in these people's backgrounds may have contributed to their decisions to establish their foundations.